The macro migration tool will convert macros written in Microsoft Excel so that they can be recognised and used in StarOffice Calc, the spreadsheet included in the StarOffice bundle, said Sun. The migration question is a big one, a critical one.
In terms of moving forward in other areas such as groupware there were significant difficulties in migrating. Newham will not now take part in the Office of Government Commerce open source trials with IBM, instead focusing its energies on talks...
The high costs of migrating from Windows XP to Windows Vista will be the catalyst that encourages more companies to seriously consider moving to desktop Linux, according to open source and networking company Novell on Monday.
The Austrian capital city of Vienna's local government is due to start migrating its desktop PCs to open source software in the second quarter of this year. Vienna is not the only large European city administration that is migrating to Linux on the...
It may also consider migrating to Linux desktops in the future, although Lapeyre said this would require much more work. The migration is expected to cut the agency's costs by €29.3m, compared with the cost of switching to Office XP.
Taylor added that migration from a Microsoft package to Open Office was no more complicated than migrating between Microsoft packages. There are now six credible alternatives to Microsoft Office in schools, according to the government's advisor on...
White Paper RSS
Download
